You can count work on this week’s TidyTuesday toward the exceptional work required for an A in the Homework component.
Explore the week’s TidyTuesday challenge. Develop a research question, then answer it through a short data story with effective visualization(s). Provide sufficient background for readers to grasp your narrative.
Date: 2026-02-03 Data: Edible Plants Database Source: GROW Observatory
What is the relationship between optimal plant germination temperature and optimal plant growing temperature, and how does this vary by required sunlight?
# Reading in the Data + loading packages
library(tidyverse)
edible_plants <- readr::read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/main/data/2026/2026-02-03/edible_plants.csv')
edible_plants <- edible_plants |>
filter(temperature_germination != is.na(temperature_germination)) |>
filter(temperature_growing != is.na(temperature_growing))# Creating a visualization
edible_plants |>
ggplot(aes(x = water, fill = sunlight)) +
labs(x = "Required Water",
title = "Required Water versus Required Sunlight",
subtitle = "How much water plants require relative to how much sunlight they require.",
fill = "Required Sunlight") +
scale_fill_viridis_d() +
geom_bar()